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Josie Barboriak

Josie Barboriak

Privileged Information: Reflections on the College Admissions Process

In the past two years, I’ve felt my life becoming a collection of useful and beautiful images. I spend early mornings on boats in the…

15 min readJan 3, 2024

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Privileged Information: Reflections on the College Admissions Process

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Josie Barboriak

Career, Impact, and Selfishness: Why is Everyone Going Into Consulting?

with apologies to Marina Keegan, who wrote about this twelve years ago

10 min readNov 2, 2023

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Career, Impact, and Selfishness: Why is Everyone Going Into Consulting?

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Josie Barboriak

A Series of Poems That Could Have Been Tweets

These are mostly silly! Observations and musings et cetera. Not taking myself too seriously.

3 min readJul 24, 2023

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a sparrow holds the tip of an ice cream cone

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Josie Barboriak

On “A Parent’s Guide to Campus Tours” in the New Yorker

Alyssa Brandt, in “A Parent’s Guide to Campus Tours,” riffs on a personage of the college tour guide who is aggressively hip and opposed to…

2 min readJul 7, 2023

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On “A Parent’s Guide to Campus Tours” in the New Yorker

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The Sound of Silence: John Cage’s 4:33 As Herald and Rebellion

A packed auditorium, where a skilled pianist sits before his instrument. A gingerly creaking open of the lid, a flourish of the hands…

4 min readApr 30, 2023

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Josie Barboriak

On Love and Literary Representation

This graphic narrative was my final project for a college class which analyzes the merits of text as a medium. Hope you enjoy!

2 min readMar 13, 2023

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On Love and Literary Representation

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Josie Barboriak

Meta-Meditation (or, Your Parents Doing Something Doesn’t Make It Permanently Dorky)

Early one morning, I sat cross-legged on a small artificial hill. I’d been spurred on by a physics assignment to venture once again into…

4 min readJan 5, 2023

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Meta-Meditation (or, Your Parents Doing Something Doesn’t Make It Permanently Dorky)

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Josie Barboriak

The Tyranny of Expectation: Marx, Durkheim, Hartmann on the Plight of the Housewife

The housewife, the homemaker, the stay-at-home mother. Even in the 21st century, one in which egalitarian ideals are often preached, the…

8 min readDec 11, 2022

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The Tyranny of Expectation: Marx, Durkheim, Hartmann on the Plight of the Housewife

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Josie Barboriak

Conditioning the Gaze: Consumption, Perception, and Beauty in The Bluest Eye

Is our perception truly our own? As we grow to adulthood, we often fail to question the origins of our worldviews and the ways in which…

7 min readDec 11, 2022

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Conditioning the Gaze: Consumption, Perception, and Beauty in The Bluest Eye

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Josie Barboriak

Politics, Aesthetics, and the Revolutionary Potential of Art: The Role of the Content Algorithm

How does the modern mass-media content algorithm change the way we interact with art and the nature of the sentiments expressed within it…

5 min readDec 3, 2022

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Politics, Aesthetics, and the Revolutionary Potential of Art: The Role of the Content Algorithm

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Josie Barboriak

Josie Barboriak

Chicago-based writer, interested in critical storytelling on the slightly academic side. Prior work on https://quaranteen.wixsite.com/quaranteeateq

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